Sky Sports pundit Jobi McAnuff has praised the Leicester City hierarchy for the club’s scintillating start to their Championship campaign – not least their decision to sell James Maddison to Tottenham.
The Foxes recorded their 12th win in their first 13 league games on Tuesday night, with James Justin’s first half header enough to seal a 1-0 victory over Sunderland.
City are charging towards an immediate return to the Premier League – at record-breaking pace – with Enzo Maresca confirming his potential as one of the brightest coaching minds in the country and his team not missing the likes of Maddison and Newcastle’s Harvey Barnes.
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Asked why the Foxes are ‘standing out so much’, the former Reading midfielder pointed to decisions taken in the summer, not just appointing Maresca but acting decisively on other areas.
“That recruitment in the summer,” McAnuff told Sky Sports. “I think firstly getting a manager in with a clear philosophy and identity but giving him the time to go and implement that throughout preseason. We’ve seen clubs that come down, maybe lose big players and not quite replace them or either leave it too late in the window.
“You look at Maddison, he went for a lot, you see what he’s gone on to do now at Spurs, we’re talking about a £40 million fee which seems ridiculously low for what he’s doing, but what it does, it enables them to just get that process going, get the bodies in that they want.
